My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
BETTE MIDLERI have my standards. They’re low, but I have them.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD’s on and hit play and random things come out.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own – and I realized that there was another world.
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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I’d make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I’ll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
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Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn’t take anything drastic. You needn’t be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
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I was brought up on rock-‘n’-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn’t get interested in anything else – I tried and tried but I couldn’t get into science…or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.
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I wouldn’t say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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Find your Light; They can’t love you if they can’t see you
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Total contentment is only for cows.
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I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes – they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn’t have much of a social life.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I’d set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!
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People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
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Me, I’m just a hack. I’m just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
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Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
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Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, “If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it.”
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I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
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Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.
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A person’s life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It’s your road.
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If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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